These elements are attributed to the Philistines, who are thought to have migrated to the region from somewhere within the greater Aegean world, or, alternatively, Cyprus, or the Anatolian coast. In the beginning of the 12th century B.C.E., elements of a new material culture appear in the southern coastal plain of Canaan. Both features antedate the occupation of the previously excavated city quarters. Concentrated in these features were objects of high artistic value from a vast area of the eastern Mediterranean, including the Aegean, the Levant, Egypt, and possibly Anatolia. Among the seven anomalies excavated in 2016 are Tomb X and Ofering Pit V, which are the main subjects of this article. Geophysical surveys by georadar and magnetometer, which were carried out in Area A, a plateau approximately 600 m east of CQ1 and opposite the mosque, indicated more than 80 roughly circular anomalies. he current project, which started in 2010, exposed three new city quarters (CQ1–3) in the northern part of the city close to the ancient harbor-that is, today's Larnaca Salt Lake.

Previous research demonstrated that the city lourished mainly in the later part of the Late Bronze Age-viz., during the 13th and 12th centuries b.c.e.-but recent excavations conirmed that the city was occupied from as early as the Middle Cypriot III–Late Cypriot IA period around 1600 b.c.e. Hala Sultan Tekke is a large Bronze Age city close to the famous homonymous mosque near the international airport of Larnaca on the south coast of Cyprus.

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